Monday, January 28, 2008

Yesterday I was sitting around the house with absolutely nothing to do, so I thought I'd pull out the Dan Wesson Razorback and get myself some trigger time. It'd been a while since I'd taken that pistol for a drive and I didn't have any handloads readily available, so I swung by the local Academy to pick up a couple of boxes of the only 10mm they had in stock, the 200-grain Blazers loaded to 1060 fps. It'd been about a month since I was behind the sights of a gun and it felt damn good to be back out there, even if I was settling on ammo that wasn't loaded to its full potential -- although, to be fair, the Blazers are a fun way to kill time and just shy of 500 ft-lbs of muzzle energy it's pretty respectable. And it could have been worse...I could have had the little Walther PPK the guy next to me had, that was jamming on every third pull of the trigger. As it was, though, the Razorback ran like a champ, and I was more accurate with it than I thought I'd be considering it'd been so long since I'd shot it. I really ought to see what it'd do with some of those 155-grain Hornady XTPs backed up with Accurate No. 9...

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About Me

I am a very opinionated guy, Texan and quite proud of it. I lean toward the right politically but have a few libertarian tendencies that my conservative brothers and sisters might not agree with. I like guns, old country music and a lot of other things.

Essential Reading

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty -- so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator -- and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.-- Cesare Beccaria, in On Crimes And Punishments, later quoted by Thomas Jefferson

Echo

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.-- Alexander Hamilton